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The 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Country Narratives: Belarus

Document number
1671
Date
2006
Title
The 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Country Narratives: Belarus
Author/publisher
The US Department of State, United States of America
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Protection, Prevention, Prosecution, Sexual exploitation, Forced labour, Identification, Reporting, Investigation, Criminal charges, Task forces, Data analysis, Data collection, Data exchange; Organized crime, Prosecution, Law Enforcement, Criminal justice, Judicial cooperation; Victim-centred approach, National anti-trafficking measures; Criminalisation, Punishment, Crime prevention;
Summary
The Department of State is required by law to submit a Report each year to the U.S. Congress on foreign governments’ efforts to eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons. This Report is the sixth annual TIP Report. It is intended to raise global awareness, to highlight the growing efforts of the international community to combat human trafficking, and to encourage foreign governments to take effective actions to counter all forms of trafficking in persons. The Report has increasingly focused the efforts of a growing community of nations on sharing information and partnering in new and important ways. Acountry that fails to make significant efforts to bring itself into compliance with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking in persons, per U.S. law, receives a “Tier 3” assessment in this Report. Such an assessment could trigger the withholding of nonhumanitarian, non-trade-related assistance from the United States to that country. In assessing foreign governments’ efforts, the TIP Report highlights the “three P’s”— prosecution, protection, and prevention. But a victim-centered approach to trafficking requires us equally to address the “three R’s”— rescue, rehabilitation, and reintegration. The full TIP Report as well as its separate parts are available in PDF format at http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/66086.pdf
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